O fantástico muriliano como paródia do maravilhoso: uma análise do conto “o ex-mágico da taberna minhota”

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the short story "O ex-mâgico da Taberna Minhota" by the author Murilo Rubiâo. In doing text analysis we are concerned with letting the text raise its own theoretical questions. We aim to bring new research on fantastic literature on the campus of the sertâo, especially Brazilian fantastic literature. We place Murilo Rubiâo’s tale in the historical horizon of fantastic literature, highlighting its confluences and divergences in the genre. We also defend the thesis that fantastic literary works also have aesthetic value, when we study the aesthetic conventions of literature, from the classics to the realists. To support this statement, we mainly approach two concepts, that of verisimilitude and that of causality, with the help of Todorov (2013 and 2017) We cover the entire tale and highlight the author’s originality in building an original narrative, which makes a parody of Maravilhoso, the very genre that it is inserted, as Rodrigues (2016) says, creating an unusual effect in his stories. The work was only possible through the theoretical support of Moisés (1972), Aguiar e Silva (1973), Barros (1981), Reis and Lopes (1988) and Magri (2009).